chuck1's blog

Don't let risk mitigation turn you lukewarm!

Security and safety are very important. I am hip to that. No need to "lead with your chin" in business. In love, that philosophy is even more stupid.

Before you say that, consider this:

Drupal Makes Me Happy: Yo, if it makes you genuinely happy, it's probably pretty good.

So I'm re-doing the site as you can see. The video on the front page will change. Just trying to get it working HTML5-style now. There are so many devices, operating systems and browsers out there now. It's complex to serve things up correctly to all of them.

Speaking of which, if you notice anything odd in the display or if the front page video doesn't display/play correctly in your browser or device, let me know. I'm especially interested to hear how things are working in the Droid world.

Only if it intends to grow.

Evolution Media: My company's logo.
It is safe to say that most dog groomers have neither time nor inclination to blog. Same goes for real estate brokers, cardiologists, plumbers or just about any type of small business person. Someone who spends 70 hours a week (or more) running a business probably does not want to be bothered with blogging. What, exactly, would be the point in blogging, after all? It's not like anyone gets paid for it (world-renowned blogsters like Yours Truly aside), and time spent blogging is time spent away from the core business, right?

Definitely worth the price!

Free mind mapping software abounds. Most of it owes its existence to Freemind which is a friggin' cool tool.

Oh, wait, before I go further I should probably answer the question:

What is mind mapping?

Many readers of this blog probably do not know much about mind mapping. (Many do, but many don't, I'm sure. My dear Grammy, for instance, might be new to the concept.)

I've been slinging Web CEO for so long, making such a huge amount of bank on it (not really). Tens of thousands of clicks later, I find myself assessing my success and doing a bit of soul searching: Is Web CEO or any SEO tool worth the money?

Here is what I really think:

All SEO tools are a total waste of time and money!*

(*for you... because your content is not up to par)

Oh great, just what the world needs, another get-rich-quick scheme...

Meet "Auto Blog Samurai."

Autoblogging is a strange phenomenon wherein people use software to grab and aggregate free content on blogs. They do this for the sole purpose of placing ads on the pages and letting the system run itself, making a few bucks a day per blog. In theory, search engines will pick up your autoblog pages and you will get tons of traffic by virtue of quantity. Your autoblog empire can add new content every hour of every day and earn you money as you sleep.

Can it be this easy?

The other day I was talking to this guy who develops iPhone apps on a contract basis. He is a coder. Apparently, big companies are paying big money for custom applications. Apparently, this guy is doing pretty well. It got me thinking: Why would a big company not outsource this work? Why pay a local NYC code slinger big bucks to do it?

I'm about to give away a good portion of the store, so read carefully

I help small to medium-sized businesses come up on "money" searches. When prospecting, I can show many examples of businesses that I have helped, a couple of which I helped push to the top on some fairly competitive key phrases. Not to brag or anything...

I got that message today, Drupal admins know the one:

Critical security update required! Please check available updates to ensure the security of your server.

(or something like that...)

It's all in red and stuff, looks really intimidating, like, "Oh my God, what if the hackers have discovered this vulnerability before the Drupal development community did!"